Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Canada is a warning

This week in the Pacific north-west, temperature records are not just being broken, they are being obliterated. Temperatures reached a shocking 47.9C in British Columbia, Canada. Amid temperatures more typically found in the Sahara desert, dozens have died of heat stress, with “roads buckling and power cables melting”.
 While humans can survive temperatures of well over 50C when humidity is low, when both temperatures and humidity are high, neither sweating nor soaking ourselves can cool us. What matters is the “wet-bulb” temperature – given by a thermometer covered in a wet cloth – which shows the temperature at which evaporative cooling from sweat or water occurs. Humans cannot survive prolonged exposure to a wet-bulb temperature beyond 35C because there is no way to cool our bodies. Not even in the shade, and not even with unlimited water. A 35C wet-bulb temperature was once thought impossible. 
But last year scientists reported that locations in the Persian Gulf and Pakistan’s Indus river valley had already reached this threshold, although only for an hour or two, and only over small areas. 
As climate change drives temperatures upwards, heatwaves and accompanying unliveable temperatures are predicted to last longer and occur over larger areas and in new locations, including parts of Africa and the US south-east, over the decades to come. What can governments, companies and citizens do?

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The Photographer. Barcelona, Spain.



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The New Yorker


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Calvin and Hobbes


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Tattoo You





Tattoo artist Luke Cormier inks nostalgic designs that look like real stickers from the ‘80s and ‘90s. 
With clever shading and realistic “paper” creases, each tattoo looks like it could peel off your skin.

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How The Simpsons Keeps Predicting The Future


How many times has something happened that made national news, and someone said "Simpsons did it!" immediately?
 It's uncanny how The Simpsons made so many gags that ended up happening in the real world years later. Were the writers so in tune with trends that they could predict the future? Is it all coincidence?
 Is this phenomenon an illusion of our perception? Or are they time travelers? 
Maybe our world is turning into a sitcom! 
Buzzfeed Unsolved goes through these theories, and then takes a look at what's really happening.

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Watch a man jump onto a stack of 10 pallets with his unicycle.

Eslyn’s Life-Like Dolls


These are not like the ordinary dolls that you will find in a toy store. No.
 These are much much more superior.
 
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Life in the slow lane






Meet the Mennonites of Belize. 

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Even the best job will never love you back.

“Hustle culture” – working all the time, finding your fulfilment and identity there, pledging yourself to your employer like a serf, having a side-hustle to plug any gaps, configuring yourself as an instrument of productivity – has taken quite a hit over the past 18 months. 
 Some of us have been forced by catastrophe to think about what really matters. Some have realised that, for all that we loved our job, our job didn’t love us back. Some have worked so hard that we’ve forgotten what the point was, and emptied the tank of drive and ambition. And some have had such a prolonged period of inactivity that our muscles of activity for activity’s sake have simply atrophied. For all that to have aligned at once is a once-in-a-generation event.
 At the height of the pandemic, 63% of people supported a four-day week; only 12% were against it. It sounds like a bigger shift when you call it a three-day weekend. Either way, it is as far from hustle culture as you can imagine.
 So we’re ready for part two of this conversation: where, if not from work, is a person supposed to get their sense of achievement? Intimate relationships count for a lot, but you don’t wake up every morning with a drive to do them better. Where do you direct your competitiveness, your urge not just to improve but to measure your improvement? It can’t just be triathlons.
 The people to ask are retirees. They’ve solved this puzzle. They’re just keeping quiet about it. 

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Monday, June 28, 2021

Saturday, June 26, 2021

Modern Toss


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Summertime


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Proud Little Pyramid



As Pride month draws to a close, King’s Cross will explode with camp, colour and creativity as British Argentine-Japanese artist and designer Adam Nathaniel Furman unveils their ‘Proud Little Pyramid’

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Friday, June 25, 2021

Stop talking about me behind my back!


Residents of Tome, a town in the Bio Bio region of Chile, have been experiencing what one fisherman called a "plague of sea lions". The sea lions are thought to have been fleeing predators such as orcas, although gale force winds in the area could also be a factor.
 One sea lion was caught on camera, opening a gate to crash an interview.

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The Elephant in the Room


Photo by Radchadawan Peungprasopporn/Facebook/AFP/Getty Images 

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Personal Jesus


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Good and Good for You


Why settle for a tiny bit of butter on your bread when you could eat a chunk of butter (minus the bread) to “lubricate [your] arteries and veins.”? And why settle for a cake with some whipped cream when you can make a cake with a mountain of it? These are just some of the posts that can be found at the Facebook group Questionable Vintage Recipes, and Bored Panda has compiled the weirdest posts from the said group. 
 
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Something happened here


On the eve of the release of the Pentagon’s highly anticipated report on unidentified aerial phenomena, life here in one of the world’s UFO hotspots was exceedingly normal.
 Downtown’s alien souvenir shops and the International UFO Museum welcomed a steady stream of visitors escaping their pandemic malaise on Thursday as coronavirus restrictions continued to loosen in New Mexico. The US government will release a declassified report on Friday detailing its analysis of various unidentified flying phenomena. 
City leaders hope that outsiders’ enthusiasm about the report will pique their interest in visiting.

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It was an apocalypse.




A tornado has swept through several villages in the south-eastern Czech Republic, killing three people and injuring at least 60, rescuers say. 
 Thursday's storm blew off roofs from a number of buildings in the southern Breclav and Hodonin districts, uprooting trees and overturning cars. 
 The worst-hit places looked like a war zone in videos posted by witnesses.

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Thursday, June 24, 2021

True North, Luke Saxton






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